Dual Boot with FC3 and Win 2K

[Cyber Source]

I've had many time where windows was NOT on the first partition (bios 
partitions, etc) and it ALWAYS needed the mapping. If you have this 
working without it, I would love to see it. Send a copy of your 
grub.conf file.

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 19:17 -0500, Cyber Source wrote:
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>>Also, the mapping is necessary for dual drives, windows needs to think 
>>that it is on the primary drive.
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>Maybe, and maybe not.
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>I am not using XP at present, but my windows 98 install is very happy
>existing on /dev/hdb1 and booting from grub in the MBR on /dev/hda/.
>When I tried XP it worked the same way.
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>I do not use the map lines in grub.conf, and when installing linux it
>does not write those lines either.
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>I think the real issue is that windows will usually only boot from the
>first partition it sees as a dos/ntfs partition.  I have no partitions
>other than  linux/swap on hda so the first partition windows can see
>is /dev/hdb1 and it is happy there. 
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>>John Thorburn wrote:
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>>>I have a Dell system which has 2 HD's and a current
>>>install of Win 2K. I wiped out the 2nd HD and
>>>installed FC3 on it. I used the Auto Partition option
>>>for this drive and installed GRUB to handle the boot
>>>load stuff. However, the system doesn't give me the
>>>option at boot to use FC3 or Win 2K; it just goes to
>>>Win 2K.
>>>
>>>I tried placing GRUB on hda and then on hdb. Neither
>>>worked. I tried to reinstall the Boot Loader and, when
>>>I do, FC3 tries to install Firefox and then tells me
>>>that no images were loaded and that none of my boot
>>>loader changes will take effect.
>>>
>>>I've tried alot of stuff so far and I'm at my wit's
>>>end. Any help would be appreciated as I'm new to
>>>Linux/FC.
>>>
>>>Thanks much in advance.
>>>John T.
>>>
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>>>
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>You can boot to rescue mode from the first install CD.
>then do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage" to get the same environment you would
>have if booted from the hard disk.
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>now you need to check the /boot/grub//grub.conf file and verify the
>stanza to boot XP is in there.  If not it will need to be added
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>finally check /boot/grub/device.map and verify /dev/hda is mapped to
>(hd0) and /dev/hdb is mapped to (hd1)
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>after verifying everything is correct in the grub.conf file you last run
>"grub-install /dev/hda"
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>Now a reboot should by default boot to linux and a menu selection should
>let you boot to XP
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>Alternatively you can follow someone else's suggestion that you switch
>drive positions.  Either way will work.
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